Virtual tour of Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas
Tuesday, May 25, 7:00PM EST
Join Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum, for a virtual tour of the exhibition Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas. Climate change is having a severe impact on Indigenous communities across the Americas, but the situation has an even longer history rooted in the legacies of European colonialism. With more than sixty works spanning 2,800 years and cultures across North, Central, and South America, the exhibition uses the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned collection as an entryway for understanding Indigenous knowledge systems and their centrality in the creation of environmental justice.
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Nancy Rosoff is the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum. Appointed in 2001, Rosoff is responsible for the Museum’s pre-Columbian and Native American art collections consisting of approximately 35,000 objects from North, Central and South America. Among her many projects, she curated collection reinstallations in 2004 and 2013, and co-curated Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Desaparecido in 2018, and Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains in 2011. She also curated the pre-Columbian and Spanish Americas objects in Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving in 2019. Her most recent exhibition, Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas, is the subject of this talk.